Standing in the Canadian’s way was an 0-1 Bekzat Almakhan, who had lost his promotional debut to then undefeated Umar Nurmagomedov, champion Merab Dvalishvili’s last title challenger.

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Umar Nurmagomedov ... out there before Nurmagomedov revealed how long he would be out of action. However, Yan seemed keen to fight Nurmagomedov on either the Azerbaijan card that the company ...